Summary

David M. Leitner is Reynold C. Fuson Professor of w88 sports betting app. His current research interests include theoretical and computational studies of energy flow in molecules, particularly in biological systems, and its influence on chemical reaction kinetics and thermal transport. Other research interests include theoretical approaches to address thermal conduction in nanoscale systems, and computational studies of terahertz spectroscopy and dynamics of solvated biomolecules. He carried out his undergraduate studies in Chemical Engineering and w88 sports betting app at Cornell University and received his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics at the University of Chicago working with R. S. Berry. After one year as a postdoc with Jim Doll at Brown University, he was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow and Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Heidelberg, where he worked with Lorenz Cederbaum, research associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he worked with Peter Wolynes, and assistant project scientist at UCSD. He joined the w88 sports betting app Department at UNR in 2000. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

About the Reynold Clayton Fuson Endowed w88 sports betting app Professorship

Reynold Clayton Fuson was an American chemist who spent 14 years at the end of his career as a distinguished visiting professor at the University. Fuson considered his students and colleagues his family and divided his substantial estate between several universities to support students, lecturers and professorships. Established: 1984. (College of w88 sports betting app)

Honors and Awards

2023, Nevada Board of Regents w88 sports betting app Researcher Award
2019, Japan Society for the Promotion of w88 sports betting app (JSPS) Invitational Fellow
2017, Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of w88 sports betting app (AAAS)
2014, w88 sports betting app of Nevada, Reno Outstanding Researcher Award
2012, Elected w88 sports betting app American Physical Society (APS)
2011, Hyung K. Shin Award for Excellence in w88 sports betting app (UNR College of Science)
2004, Mousel-Feltner Award for Excellence in w88 sports betting app and Creative Activity (UNR College of Liberal Arts and College of Science)
2001, w88 sports betting app Corporation w88 sports betting app Innovation Award
2000, Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award

w88 sports betting app interests

How energy flows within a molecule mediates the rate at which it reacts in gas and condensed phases and in cells. We have been developing theories describing quantum mechanical w88 sports betting app in molecules and applying them to predict rates of conformational change and charge transfer reactions. This theoretical work provides a tractable approach to calculate rates of reactions involving large molecules in gas and condensed phases that goes beyond simple transition state theory predictions by incorporating contributions of intramolecular quantum w88 sports betting app and coupling to the environment.

We are also exploring energy and thermal transport at the nanoscale, including molecular junctions, proteins and nanoporous materials. An understanding of how these objects conduct heat is valuable for emerging nanotechnologies, describing and control of thermal transport in systems of biological molecules, and predicting the role of w88 sports betting app during chemical reactions in complex environments.

Biomolecule dynamics and w88 sports betting app are intimately coupled to the solvent. We have been studying by numerical simulation dynamic coupling between proteins and water molecules near the surface of the protein and confined within it. This work is motivated in part by terahertz spectroscopic studies that have been carried out on solvated proteins and saccharides, which directly probe the underlying protein-solvent interactions and dynamics.

Education

• B.S. Chemical Engineering, B.A. w88 sports betting app, Cornell University (1985)
• Ph.D. Chemical Physics, w88 sports betting app Chicago (1989)

Selected publications

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• "Energy transport across interfaces in biomolecular systems," D. M. w88 sports betting app, H. D. Pandey, K. M. Reid, J. Phys. Chem. B 123, 9507 - 9524 (2019) (Feature Article).
• "Elastic and inelastic contributions to thermal transport between chemical groups and thermal rectification in molecules," K. M. Reid, H. D. Pandey and D. M. w88 sports betting app, J. Phys. Chem. C 123, 6256 - 6264 (2019).
• "Illuminating Fermi resonances that trigger reaction in a complex molecule," D. M. w88 sports betting app, Chem 5, 256 - 257 (2019).
• "Molecules and the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis," D. M. w88 sports betting app, Entropy 20, art. 673 (2018).
• "Scaling of rates of vibrational energy transfer in proteins with equilibrium dynamics and entropy," K. M. Reid, T. Yamato, D. M. w88 sports betting app, J. Phys. Chem. B 122, 9331 - 9339 (2018)
• "Vibrational states and nitrile lifetimes of cyanophenylalanine isotopomers in solution," H. D. Pandey and D. M. w88 sports betting app, J. Phys. Chem. A 122, 6856 - 6863 (2018).
• "Hydrophobic collapse of ubiquitin generates rapid protein-water motions," H. Wirtz, S. Schäfer, C. Hoberg, K. M. Reid, D. M. w88 sports betting app, M. Havenith, Biochemistry 57, 3650 - 3657 (2018).
• "Mapping energy transport networks in proteins," D. M. Leitner and T. Yamato, in Reviews in Computational w88 sports betting app, A. L. Parrill, K. B. Lipkowitz, eds.; Wiley, 2018; vol. 31, Ch. 2, pp. 63 - 113.
• "Influence of thermalization on thermal conduction through molecular junctions: Computational study of PEG oligomers," H. D. Pandey and D. M. w88 sports betting app, J. Chem. Phys. 147, art. 084701 (2017).
• "Thermalization and thermal transport in molecules," H. D. Pandey and D. M. w88 sports betting app, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 7, 5062 - 5067 (2016).
• "Water-mediated energy dynamics in a homodimeric hemoglobin," D. M. w88 sports betting app, J. Phys. Chem. B 120, 4019 - 4027 (2016).
• "Hydrophobic collapse induces changes in the collective protein and hydration low frequency modes," T. Q. Luong, Y. Xu, E. Bründermann, D. M. w88 sports betting app, M. Havenith, Chem. Phys. Lett. 651, 1 - 7 (2016) (Frontiers Article).
• "Scaling rules for vibrational energy transport in globular proteins," S. Buchenberg, D. M. w88 sports betting app, G. Stock, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 7, 25 - 30 (2016).
• "Protein-water dynamics in antifreeze protein III activity," Y. Xu, A. Bäumer, K. Meister, C. Bischak, A. L. DeVries, D. M. w88 sports betting app, M. Havenith, Chem. Phys. Lett. 647, 1 - 6 (2016) (Frontiers Article).
• "Quantum ergodicity and energy flow in molecules," D. M. w88 sports betting app, Advances in Physics 64, 445 - 517 (2015).
• "Asymmetric energy flow in liquid alkylbenzenes: A computational study," D. M. w88 sports betting app and H. D. Pandey, J. Chem. Phys. 143, art. 144301 (2015).
• "Vibrational energy flow in the villin headpiece subdomain: Master equation simulations," D. M. w88 sports betting app, S. Buchenberg, P. Brettel, G. Stock, J. Chem. Phys. 142, art. 075101, pp. 1 - 9 (2015).